A Ritual for Balance and Closure
The New Moon is in Libra on the 10.10.10 Portal
while Venus is in Retrograde in the sign of Scorpio for the final cycle in our lifetimes --
Embracing Our Role as Torchbearers
As we navigate the currents of change, we stand as torchbearers, illuminating the path for ourselves and others. With the transformative energy of Scorpio, we possess a unique lens that allows us to delve deep into the complexities of our emotions and experiences. This new moon serves not just as a moment of reflection, but as a powerful gateway to new possibilities.
The Scorpio Lens: Depth and Insight
Through the Scorpio lens, we can explore the depths of our inner selves, unearthing hidden truths and confronting shadows. This perspective empowers us to embrace our authentic selves, fostering growth and understanding. As we delve into these depths, we become change makers, capable of influencing our surroundings and inspiring those around us.
Calling in Balance
In this transformative phase, we are reminded of the importance of balance. As we harness the intensity of Scorpio's energy, we must also strive for equilibrium in our lives. This new moon invites us to align our desires with our actions, ensuring that we move forward with intention and grace.
A Gateway to New Beginnings
While some new moons may seem calm, this one presents a dynamic gateway. It encourages us to step boldly into the unknown, embracing the potential for transformation. As we journey through this lunar phase, let us carry our torches high, illuminating the way for ourselves and others as we navigate the depths and seek balance in our lives.
Today’s New Moon in Libra arrives on the 10th day of the 10th month in what many numerologists consider a 10 year, creating a potent 10.10.10 sequence. In numerology, 10 often speaks to completion, full-circle moments, and the point where one chapter resolves before another begins.
Because this portal opens under Libra’s new moon, the invitation is not just to begin again. It is to notice what has reached its natural ending in the realm of relationships, balance, justice, peace, beauty, reciprocity, and equality.
But there is another layer.
Venus, Libra’s ruling planet, is currently retrograde in Scorpio. This links the softness of Libra with the depth of Scorpio, pulling themes of love, intimacy, power, shared resources, trust, and psychological entanglement into the same room.
Moon of Sincere Recalibration
This moon is a time for sincere recalibration. It's an opportunity to close loops and to question where harmony has turned into performance, where loyalty has led to self-neglect, and where peace has been preserved at the expense of truth. In this reflective phase, it is crucial to create and maintain balance in our lives.
Creating and Keeping Balance
Balance involves recognizing the areas where we may be overextending ourselves for the sake of others while neglecting our own needs. It encourages us to cultivate a sense of equilibrium between our personal desires and our commitments to others. By prioritizing self-care and setting healthy boundaries, we can ensure that our relationships are based on mutual respect and understanding rather than obligation.
As we navigate this moon's energies, let us focus on integrating our truths with our actions, fostering an environment where both our needs and the needs of those we care about can coexist harmoniously. This is a time to recalibrate not just our relationships, but also our inner selves, leading to a more balanced and fulfilling existence.
Why the 10.10.10 Portal Matters
The number 10 carries the energy of completion and return. It contains both 1 and 0, the beginning and the void, the seed and the circle.
A triple expression of 10 can feel like a magnified closing point. Not an ending that punishes, but one that clears space.
The 101010 portal asks a simple question:
What is complete, even if part of you is still attached to it?
This may show up as a relationship pattern that no longer feels honest. It may be a role you have outgrown. It may be an old identity built around being agreeable, available, or constantly fair to everyone except yourself.
Libra energy often gets reduced to beauty and partnership, but Libra is also the sign of the scales. It notices imbalance. It senses when one person carries too much, gives too much, explains too much, or waits too long for harmony to be restored.
Under this new moon, completion may arrive through contrast. You may clearly see where:
A relationship needs a new agreement
A pattern of people-pleasing has reached its limit
A desire for peace has kept you from speaking honestly
A shared responsibility needs to be redistributed
A beautiful connection needs deeper truth to survive
This is not about cutting everything off. Libra does not rush to extremes. It seeks right relationship. Sometimes that means repair. Sometimes it means release. Often, it means telling the truth without abandoning compassion.
Venus Retrograde in Scorpio Brings the Deeper Lesson
Venus retrograde began on October 3, peaks on October 23, and resolves on November 14. This 41-day passage moves across Libra and Scorpio Sun sign territory, blending two very different kinds of relational medicine.
Libra asks, “Is this fair?”
Scorpio asks, “Is this true?”
Libra looks at the visible agreement. Scorpio looks at the hidden contract underneath it.
Together, they reveal where love has become tangled with fear, control, debt, secrecy, longing, or unspoken resentment. Venus retrograde in Scorpio does not skim the surface. It asks us to examine the emotional root system beneath our bonds.
Scorpio governs many of the themes people prefer to avoid, including:
Power dynamics
Shared money and resources
Sexual and emotional intimacy
Psychological attachment
Jealousy, grief, and betrayal
Transformation through loss and rebirth
When Venus moves retrograde through this territory, old relational material can come back into view. Former lovers, unresolved grief, old wounds around trust, and patterns around desire may surface. Not always literally. Sometimes they return as dreams, memories, body sensations, or sudden clarity.
This is why performing A Ritual for Balance and Closure during the 10.10.10 Portal or around the New Moon in Libra feels so fitting. Libra brings the scales. Scorpio brings the shadow. The number 10 brings the ending.
Together, they ask us to complete the cycle with consciousness.
The Venus Star Point Is Marking a Larger Cycle
Beyond the personal meaning of this new moon, many astrologers are also watching a much larger Venus cycle.
Venus moves in a highly patterned relationship with Earth. Over an 8-year Earth loop, Venus orbits the Sun 13 times. When mapped across the sky, this rhythm forms a five-pointed star, often called the Venus Star. This pattern has long been associated with sacred geometry, beauty, and the Goddess traditions connected to Venus.
For nearly a century, this Venus retrograde cycle has been rooted in Scorpio. The modern sequence is often traced through the following years:
Venus in Scorpio cycle years |
1930 |
1938 |
1946 |
1954 |
1962 |
1970 |
1978 |
1986 |
1994 |
2002 |
2010 |
2018 |
2026 |
This marks 13 occurrences, a number often considered sacred to the Goddess in many mystical traditions.
Yet the 8-year loop is not perfectly fixed. It drifts backward by about 2.28 degrees every 8 years. Because of this slow movement across the zodiac wheel, the Venus Star Point is now migrating out of Scorpio and into Libra.
In 4 years, and then every 8 years going forward, this star point begins to cross into late Libra. Venus will not return to Scorpio in this particular cycle until 2181.
For astrologers who work with these cycles, this is a major symbolic transition. A century-long Scorpio emphasis is closing. A new era of Libra themes is opening. That does not mean Scorpio lessons disappear. It means the collective focus begins to shift.
The long Scorpio cycle has asked us to face what is buried: emotional inheritance, power, trauma, survival, intimacy, death, rebirth, and the unseen bonds that shape our lives.
The Libra cycle asks a different question:
How do we live together beautifully and fairly after what has been revealed?
What May Be Completing Now
When a personal new moon aligns with a larger Venus transition, the energy can feel both intimate and collective. You may notice endings that seem small on the surface but carry deep meaning underneath.
A conversation may finally name what has been avoided. A relationship may shift into a clearer form. A pattern around attraction may lose its charge. A part of you that learned to survive through silence may feel ready to speak.
A New Moon in Libra Ritual for Balance and Closure
This ritual is simple, quiet, and best done at night. It is designed to help you honor what is complete while planting a clear intention for what comes next. Join our newsletter to receive the ritual directly in your inbox! Fill out the contact form here
Join My Wellness Sage This Evening for Balancing the Scales
To support this New Moon in Libra and the closing of these larger Venus cycles, My Wellness Sage is hosting Balancing the Scales this evening at 7:30pm ET.
This guided sleep meditation is created to help you soften into the completion of old relational, emotional, and energetic patterns while stepping into the new moon field with more peace. It is especially aligned with this final Venus retrograde in Scorpio of our lifetimes, as we release the century-long Scorpio emphasis and begin opening toward a new Libra era of balance, equality, and right relationship.
Come as you are. Wear comfortable clothing and set up in a spot where you can recline with ease. Bring a journal and the willingness to let the scales return to center.
This new moon is not asking for perfection. It is asking for honesty.
Let what is complete be complete.
Let what is ready to begin have room to breathe.
